Grippy and focused with sweet blackcurrant fruit and some appealing berry notes. Firmly structured with a hint of mint and some nice grippiness, with gravelly notes and tar and pepper savouriness on the finish. Still quite grippy.
Concentrated, dense and textural with sweet black cherry and blackberry fruit, showing some notes of tar, ash and spice. Real concentration here: rich, spicy, vivid and bold. There’s a real concentration to this wine, and a core of sweet fruit.
The second vintage of this cuvée from the Eola-Amity Hills, the 2022 Chardonnay Desiderium pours a bright straw hue and opens with flinty, matchstick reduction, citrus zest, lemon balm, and salted pineapple rind. Medium-bodied, it has refreshing acidity and subtle savory depth, with notes of almond and hints of beeswax. It’s well-balanced, with a clean, savory finish. Drink 2025-2033.
Preserved cherries, crushed violets, cedar, and rosemary emerge from the 2023 Pinot Noir Pas de Nom, which is a barrel selection and pours a ruby red color. Medium-bodied, it’s refined and expands across the palate, featuring velvety tannins, a refreshing spine of acidity, and a gently tapering finish. It's got fantastic potential to drink over the coming 15 or more years.
The 2023 Pinot Noir Estate Vineyard is forward and expressive, with bright, peppery spice jumping from the glass, followed by notes of wild raspberries, dusty earth, fresh flowers, and dried orange peel. The palate has lovely energy that propels this medium-bodied wine, with fine tannins and refreshing acidity. It's a total charmer now and should also improve over the next few years. Drink 2025-2040.
The 2022 Pinot Noir Upland is bright ruby and refined, with spiced cherry, dark stone, anise, and purple flowers. Refreshing and structured, it offers mouthwatering acidity and citrus notes layered with baked earth. Drink 2025-2040.
A darker red color, the 2022 Pinot Noir Gran Moraine Vineyard is ripe with brooding notes of licorice, black cherries, dark spices, and fresh sage. The palate offers a lovely contrast, with some red-fruited highlights shining through, along with medium to full-bodied richness, a silky, even texture, and refreshing underlying acidity to keep it light on its feet. It’s a very appealing wine to drink over the next decade.
Discreet spices and black fruits on the nose, traces of tar and ironstone rock. Firm and full-bodied with richness and generosity, the finish lasting a long time. Fine balance and still has quite a grip of tannin.
Full-bodied and deeply structured but retains a sense of handsome elegance, with deep flavors of blackberry and cherry laced with mineral, cedar and orange peel notes as this builds richness and tension toward broad-shouldered tannins. Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot. Best from 2027 through 2035
This 2023 Pinot Noir comes from a scenic site on the southern part of the appellation, set on rocky sand soils. The wine was stored in 40% new French oak for 14 months, this offers salty soils alongside bright guava and red currant fruit flavors with Mandarin orange zest. Drink 2025-2038
The 2023 ‘Skycrest’ is a hillside Vineyard that is set on a mountain hillside with southwestern aspect that delivers small berries. The Pinot Noir was stored in 20% new French oak for 14 months before bottling. Light tannins frame a really good core of bright red and dark fruits with damp/salty soil accents. Enjoy now and over the next ten plus years. Drink 2025-2038
The 2023 ‘Edmeades’ is the first vineyard planted in this region. Shades of dark truffle shavings and peat moss fill the nose alongside wild blackberry. The palate is soft and robust with refined tannins and beautiful damp earth tones. Enjoy now and over the next ten plus years. Drink 2025-2038
The 2023 ‘Grand Moraine’ comes from several clonal selections and was given a small amount of whole cluster fermentation. Stored in 30% new French oak for 14 months before bottling, this offers red currants and tobacco on the nose alongside stony minerals. This is marvelously salty stuff with loads of bright red fruits alongside compost and orange peel notes. Drink 2025-2040
Salted lime, yuzu and Meyer lemon flavors are fresh and focused on a crisp and smooth frame, with aromatic pops of green tea, wild fennel, lemon basil and lemon balm. The intensity crescendos on the long, mouthwatering finish. Drink now through 2039.—M.W.
Offers a wonderfully savory thread of dried lemon thyme, sweetgrass and shiso leaf, with a core of Key lime, orange sherbet and lemon curd. There’s plenty of acidity and a succulent texture, with concentration and generosity on the finish. Drink now.—M.W.
Sleek and handsomely structured, this Pinot’s vibrant energy highlights its raspberry, blueberry, crushed stone and savory briar notes as this builds detail toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2033.
Elegant and seductive, with detailed raspberry and guava flavors accented by orange peel, forest floor and dusky spices as this gathers richness on the long finish. Drink now through 2033.
Deep but elegantly structured, with blueberry and raspberry flavors framed by stony mineral, dusky spice and tarragon tones as this gathers richness and detail toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2033.
A rich golden hue in the glass, this bottling pairs a crushed rock minerality with lime glaze and fresh yogurt aromas on the unique nose. The palate is extremely textural and pithy, offering flavors of chamomile, citrus and even a white pepper spice.
Clean lines of lime shave ice and lemon sorbet are immensely fresh on the nose of this bottling. The palate is tightly wound around more lime skin flavors, as faint hints of white pepper and guava skin add depth.
This appellation cuvée is always a solid bet for experiencing a healthy dose of Greg
Brewer's unique style. Strawberry, bay leaf and eucalyptus grove aromas lead from the
zesty nose into a palate of tart raspberry, orange peel and more eucalyptus flavors.
Zesty aromas of fennel tops and tarragon meet with frozen black raspberry on the minty
nose of this single-vineyard expression. Fresh and juicy red fruit flavors are layered in
spearmint and citrus peel on the palate, where the texture grows more intriguing on the
finish.
The 2022 Pinot Noir Pas de Nom is deeply satisfying to the senses, as dusty rose and crushed strawberries find complicating depths through notes of spiced orange peel and nuances of pine. Vibrant wild berry fruits and mineral tones wash across the palate, while a bump of juicy acidity maintains impressive energy throughout. The finish is long and staining, with sweet tannins framing a hint of tart raspberry that lingers impossibly long.
The 2022 Chardonnay Dropstone leans more savory in character, as fresh ginger mingles with stone dust and shavings of white peach. Elegance defines the style, with soothingly round textures and ripe orchard fruits contrasted by a distinctly saline core of minerality. The 2022 tapers off with incredible length and concentration yet remains wickedly fresh. A lemony resonance keeps the palate salivating for more.
The 2022 Pinot Noir Dropstone is darkly alluring, with depths of black raspberry and wild blueberries complicated by autumnal spice and a whiff of sweet lavender. Ripe red berry fruits envelop the palate as silken textures soothe the senses. Fine-grained tannins frame the long, structured finish.